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From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: Did Microsoft buy Xhibition??
Organization: Lake Taylor Hospital Computer Services
Date: Tue, 18 May 1993 00:54:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1993May18.005454.2297@taylor.uucp>
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harden@skate.ics.com (Aub Harden) writes:


>In article <1993May14.191035.19271@vpbuild.vp.com>, jessea@u013.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>|> I've been getting mail from Xhibition about the June conference and I was
>|> wondering if Microsoft had bought Xhibition?  The front says "Conference
>|> from Microsoft Windows NT Developers".  What's the deal?  I thought
>|> "X"hibition was for "X-windows"??
>|> 
>|> -- 
>|>       Jesse W. Asher                                          

I was wondering this myself.

>and (not surprisingly when you look at the audience) Windows NT.

>With the bulk of the Xhibition audience (and the UNIX community) developing
>applications for in-house or custom use, a new 32-bit operating system from a
>player as large as Microsoft needs to be evaluated. With MS Windows on so many
>desktops, and the price of computing power dropping, its successor needs to be
>evaluated.  As corporations begin to look at NT, so must their developers and
>suppliers.

>what you need.  Conference attendees will receive NT Software Development
>Kits- to bang on, evaluate, and generally to see for yourself.

>I hope this doesn't sound like an NT commercial (it should sound like an
>Xhibition commercial:-).

Unfortunately it does.  I don't agree with the logic of NT at an X windows
conference.  Perhaps some good will come of it, but the two are so dissimilar
and the NT marketing stuff is so large in the Xhibition adds that I was 
coming to a similar conclusion as Jesse...

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